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How to get app updates on Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble NOOK Color/Tablet

Steve — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:08:14 +0000

WhitneyApps has updated our apps many times, but we’ve found that many people – especially Kindle Fire and NOOK color/tablet users – are missing out on our enhancements and fixes by continuing to use the old version. Now it’s time to change all that! Here’s how to get those updates. Make sure you have a working Internet connection before you do this. Read on for the specifics.

Barnes & Noble NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet:

1) Turn on your device and press the ‘n’ key (just below the screen)

2) In the “QuickNav Bar” at the bottom of the sceen, tap “apps”

3) Just above the grid of app icons, on the right side, you’ll see the words “check for updates.”

4) When the “available updates” box appears, tap an app to update just that one or tap the “update all” button to update everything to the latest version. If you see “all apps are up-to-date,” you’re done.

Amazon Kindle Fire:

1) Turn on the Kindle Fire.

2) From the home screen, tap the “Apps” tab near the top of the screen.

3) Here’s the tricky part, tap “Store” at the top right.

4) Now tap the menu icon at the bottom-center of the screen (it looks like a box with three horizontal lines across it).

5) Tap “My Apps”

6) Now tap the “Update Available” tab near the top of the screen (just below “My Apps”).

7) Tap the “Update” button to the right of the apps you’d like to update.

That’s it! Have fun with your updated apps.

Let us know what else would be helpful to you. Just send your ideas to suggestions@WhitneyApps.com, leave a comment here, or post on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/WhitneyApps

Take care,

Steve @ WhitneyApps

WhitneyApps: Coming to Samsung Apps

Steve — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:16:37 +0000

We’ve been approved as a commercial seller in Samsung Apps so all you Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab owners will see our apps soon complete with Samsung’s seal of approval. We’re deciding whether to bring drop2sync to the GalaxyTab so if you’d like to see that, please let us know! More news when the apps are approved and on sale!

CardDroid Math 2.1 Update

Steve — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:51:59 +0000

Jenny, an observant customer on the Amazon Appstore, spotted a bug in CardDroid Math 2.0 that affected selection of subtraction problem set number ranges. It’s fixed in version 2.1, which is live now on Android Market and should be available in the Amazon Appstore and the Barnes & Noble NOOK shop by January 20th if their approval process goes as expected.

Bonus: Version 2.1 has a new clean, easy to read icon. (It’s the one to the right.)

Remember, if you have trouble with one of our apps, send us email so we can help you out or fix the problem. And thanks again to Jenny!

CardDroid Math 2.0 – More fun, more flexible, more effective

Steve — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:00:58 +0000

CardDroid Math version 2.0 available now in the Android Market, the Amazon Appstore, and the Barnes & Noble Nook Shop for 99 cents.

Great for helping kids learn math facts – with levels for kids in Kindergarten to 4th grades (also preschool with adult help or older kids who would benefit from review or speed work).

Choose from built-in problem sets of make your own – Choose number ranges; addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division; pick “doubles only” for addition and multiplication. The app remembers your 10 most recently used settings – great for multiple kids.

Choose sounds including kids voices, tones, and new electric guitar and “castle” sound themes.

Choose from six new color schemes (bright, camouflage, pink dream, nebula, sunrise, blue & green). Choose whether to show the score and time. Add optional time limits for working on speed.

Great colorful new look!

Pick it up now for 99 cents in the Android Market and soon in Amazon Appstore and Barnes & Noble Nook Shop.

Here are some screenshots:

Version 1.1 of drop2sync is here!

Steve — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:33:14 +0000

Version 1.1 of drop2sync – available now – adds four main features:

Better NOOK Tablet™ support
Ability to update (re-download) files that are changed on the cloud service
A setting to store PDF files in the Documents folder rather than the Books folder if you desire.
drop2sync can now copy files from up to three levels of subfolders on Dropbox (they still go in the top-level folder on the NOOK).

It’s still just $1.99! More details at www.whitneyapps.com/drop2sync or grab it at the Barnes & Noble App Shop. Owners of version 1.0 can get the 1.1 update free of charge.

Beautiful new Santa Cruz Flowers Moving Wallpaper

Steve — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:07:40 +0000

If you enjoy colors and natural beauty, you’ll love the Santa Cruz Flowers Moving Wallpaper app. It uses 10 HD pictures of a variety of flowers from the gardens of Santa Cruz, California to create hundreds of unique “journeys” through the pictures, moving from point to point and letting you explore the details.

Bring a little peace and beauty to your Android phone or tablet. Available now for 99 cents in the Android Market and soon in Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Shop and the Amazon Appstore. (There’s also a Bible version available for Android tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab and Motorola XOOM and soon the NOOK Color™ by Barnes & Noble.)

Learn more and see more pictures on the Santa Cruz Flowers product page.

New: Looking Upward Apps – Our new Christian app label

Steve — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:11:08 +0000

planning to move all of our Christian apps (and we have big plans) to a new label called Looking Upward Apps. If you want to “like” that Facebook page (facebook.com/LookingUpwardApps) or follow us on Twitter (@UpwardApps), you’ll be able to get the latest word on our coming Christian apps – it should be a steady stream of them.

drop2sync: Get all your files onto your NOOK Color™ by Barnes & Noble

Steve — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:00:10 +0000

Your NOOK Color™ by Barnes & Noble just got a lot more powerful!

drop2sync lets you use free cloud services Dropbox and Box.net to move files you want to your NOOK Color™/Tablet™ by Barnes & Noble. Wirelessly and even automatically copy music, photos, videos, documents, and some kinds of eBooks to your NOOK Color™/Tablet™ to make it much more useful and much more fun. (You can get more done and enjoy it more!)

Available now for the introductory price of $1.99 in the NOOK Shop. Available later this fall on other Android tablets.

Visit the stars with Space Journey Moving Wallpaper

Steve — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:00:11 +0000

Available now for the NOOK Color™ by Barnes and Noble (and for other Android-powered devices later this fall), Space Journey Moving Wallpaper makes your home screen into a portal to stars, nebulae, and even galaxies using breathtaking images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Space Journey Moving Wallpaper slowly moves your point of view from one part of the image to another, letting the details unfold. After a few journeys, it fades to a new image and a new exploration begins.

Learn more and see more on the Space Journey Moving Wallpaper product page.

Available for 99 cents in the NOOK App Shop.

Android tablets are great for fighting email overload

Steve — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:55:48 +0000

I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to do app development, and I found a delightful surprise that I want to share with you.

If you get a lot of email like I do, you may find it piling up on you. Well, it turns out that the best tool out there for combatting inbox expansion is the Android Honeycomb Gmail app. It’s really easy to read and archive whole batches of messages. Tap the messages you want to archive and tap the file cabinet icon. or label a batch of messages. Or delete then. And I actually enjoy it – there’s something about tapping and swiping on the screen that just feels better than using a mouse.

My goal is David Allen’s Getting Things Done target of “Inbox 0,” and I’m not there yet, but the Tab is really helping me conquer Mt. Inbox.

Enjoy!

Steve @ WhitneyApps